Beschreibung:

A good and rare late 18th century brass-mounted ebonised quarter repeating small bracket clockHenry Long, London With brass banding to the bell top surmounted by a handle and four cone finials, set over circular and shaped glazed side panels to a moulded plinth on block feet, the glass panels and doors all framed by a quarter-round cast brass moulding. The five-inch arched brass dial with twin subsidiaries for rise-and-fall regulation and strike/silent set either side of the applied silvered signature plate, silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring enclosing a matted centre with mock pendulum and date apertures. The twin fusee movement united by five knopped pillars, pivoted verge escapement with rise-and-fall regulation and rack striking on a bell. Repeating the quarters on demand via the pull cord to the right-hand side of the case on a nest of six graduated bells and hammers. The backplate engraved with a symmetrical pattern of scrolling acanthus and centred by the pendulum holdfast block. Ticking, but strike fusee chain damaged. 38cms (15ins) high